Patient Care

This page includes news coverage of various aspects of patient healthcare, including new technology innovations, what is working, what is not, personalized medicine and remote and telemedicine delivery. Find specific news in the areas of Care DeliveryDigital TransformationPrecision MedicineRemote Monitoring and Telehealth.

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Healthcare AI today: Trump’s American AI offensive, healthcare’s lack of regulatory cohesion, chatbots’ silence, more

President Donald Trump has crystallized his No. 1 priority for artificial intelligence. Unshockingly, it’s “winning the AI race.” 

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Music bingo leads to patient’s death during routine cataract surgery

In a settled lawsuit, a surgeon and anesthesiologist admitted to playing the game and missing an alarm that warned them a 56-year-old patient had stopped breathing.

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AI elevates telemedicine and protects its data too

AI can improve the quality of remotely delivered care while simultaneously defending privacy and security for the telehealth patient. 

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‘This trend is encouraging’: Radial access for PCI now preferred in US

In fact, more than 55% of all PCI cases in 2022 were performed using radial access. Cardiologists are sure to be keeping a close eye on this trend as time goes on.

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Widespread use of polypills could prevent up to 72 million heart disease deaths

Targeting high-risk patients with single-pill combination therapies, also known as polypills, could change healthcare on a global scale, according new data published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology

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Hospital system catches 70% of lung cancer cases in earliest stage, thanks to AI intervention

The solution was developed to be adaptable within the EHR, enabling improved communication of incidental findings beyond just pulmonary nodules to include other high-risk findings. 

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Healthcare AI today: AI stink-eye, disrespect for AI-toting docs, super-eager clinical adopters, more

Gen Xers and their elders tend to believe AI will do more harm than good. More than half of American adults 50 and older place themselves in that somewhat cynical category

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How pairing SAVR with additional heart surgeries affects mortality risk

When older patients undergo SAVR with concomitant procedures, it increases their short- and long-term risks of mortality. Should this influence care teams to consider more transcatheter treatments?